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20 Beautiful Views of Canadian Pacific Rockies, The Road through the Switzerland of America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue16820
- Medium
- Library - Postcard Series
- Published Date
- 1929
- Publisher
- Curt Teich & Co.
- Call Number
- V391-PG-C94-1
1 image
- Variant Title
- 1. "The Gap" Alta 2. The Three Sisters, Canmore [Byron Harmon] 3. Buffalo in the Canadian National Park at Banff, Alta. 4. C.P.R. [Canadian Pacific Railway] Hotel and Bow Valley 5. Castle Mountain 6. Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks 7. Summit Lake and Mt. Wapta [Mount Wapta] 8. Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes, Near Lake Louise, Alta. 9. The Great Divide 10. Spiral Tunnel, Field, B.C. 11. Cathedral Mountain, Field, B.C. [Byron Harmon] 12. Field, B.C. 13. Stoney Creek Bridge 14. The Connaught Tunnel through Mount Mac Donald 15. Illecillewaet Valley from Lookout Point 16. Albert Canyon 17. Along the Fraser River [Byron Harmon] 18. Hell Gate, Fraser Canyon, B.C.
- Place
- Chicago, Ill. Made in U.S.
- Publisher
- Curt Teich & Co.
- Published Date
- 1929
- Medium
- Library - Postcard Series
- Abstract
- Front cover features Mt. Assiniboine (Mount Assiniboine), mountain guide, Giant Stairways Back cover features Chateau Lake Louise and Lake
- Notes
- colour
- Includes postage stamp
- Accession Number
- 6665
- Call Number
- V391-PG-C94-1
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[Airplane on Bow River]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions23805
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of a b&w photograph negative of an airplane on the Bow River.
- Date Range
- 1929
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / D6c / NA - 65
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
1 image
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / D : Personal and professional
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / I / D / 6 : Other activities and interests
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / D6c / NA - 65
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Date Range
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 1photograph: b&w negative ; 15.2 x 9 cm
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of a b&w photograph negative of an airplane on the Bow River.
- Notes
- Annotated envelope with LUX / I / D6c / NA - 66 indicates this is Fred McCall's landing of the Stinson Detrioter on the Bow River in January 1929
- Name Access
- Luxton, Norman
- McCall, Fred
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Bow River
- Related Material
- LUX / I / D6c / NA - 66
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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From the pinnacle of the pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions50129
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Image is Ernie [?], Karl, and Peter [?] on the pinnacle of Abbot Pass.
- Date Range
- 1929
- Reference Code
- V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 1
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
2 images
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- V683
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 1
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1929
- Physical Description
- Photograph: 1 print (front and back) ; b&w.
- Scope & Content
- Image is Ernie [?], Karl, and Peter [?] on the pinnacle of Abbot Pass.
- Subject Access
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Guides
- Guiding
- Mountaineering
- Geographic Access
- Abbot Pass
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on item
- Processing Status
- Processed
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George Crawler (Yuzabi Toga), Stoney Nakoda
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions29482
- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Scope & Content
- George Crawler (Yuzabi Toga) at Banff Indian Days Stoney First Nation
- Date Range
- 1929
- Reference Code
- V263 / NA - 3267
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
1 image
- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V263
- Series
- I. Scenic / commercial series
- Sous-Fonds
- V263
- Sub-Series
- A.1.a. Negatives, Main series : 13 x 18 cm and smaller
- Accession Number
- 2770
- Reference Code
- V263 / NA - 3267
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Parallel Title
- 540. Indian chief
- Other Title Info
- Parallel title is original title
- Date Range
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : negative, 13 x 18 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- George Crawler (Yuzabi Toga) at Banff Indian Days
- Stoney First Nation
- Name Access
- Crawler, George
- Subject Access
- Indigenous Peoples
- Stoney Nakoda
- First Nations
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Creator
- Byron Harmon (Banff, Alberta)
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- Original identification made by Byron Harmon, his staff or Harmon family
- Processing Status
- Processed
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When the Ice Goes Out
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbwb.01.01
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.01.01
- Description
- General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the dis…
1 image
- Title
- When the Ice Goes Out
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 23 x 28 cm
- Description
- General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the distance at center. The grey sky fills the upper corner.
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.01.01
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Johnson's Canyon
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CuJ.02.04
- Description
- General colour: brown, green. Water runs up from the lower edge to center banked on both sides by steep cliffs. A row of trees grows by the waters edge on the left side. Trees grow on top of the cliffs. Two bridges cross the water at center and in the distance. Above left is cloudy sky.
1 image
- Title
- Johnson's Canyon
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 44.6 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: brown, green. Water runs up from the lower edge to center banked on both sides by steep cliffs. A row of trees grows by the waters edge on the left side. Trees grow on top of the cliffs. Two bridges cross the water at center and in the distance. Above left is cloudy sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- CuJ.02.04
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.03.01
- Description
- General colour: black on white. Lower third is a path in the snow, a snow-covered cabin on the viewer’s right, snow-covered pine trees behind.
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 12.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: black on white. Lower third is a path in the snow, a snow-covered cabin on the viewer’s right, snow-covered pine trees behind.
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.03.01
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.09
- Description
- General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …
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- Title
- Molar Pass
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.2 x 41.8 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.09
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1929
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.01
- Description
- General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right …
1 image
- Title
- Moraine Lake
- Date
- 1929
- Dimensions
- 40.3 x 51.9 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.01
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …
1 image
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 43.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.02
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Karlukwees, British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.04.05
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.05
- Description
- Colour: grey, white. A row of snow roofed brown and grey buildings go from the lower left to the right side two thirds up in a crescent line and diminishing in size. Along the lower edge at the left are bare branches, at center is a small building, at right is the corner of a snowy roof. At th righ…
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- Title
- Karlukwees, British Columbia
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 31.55 cm
- Description
- Colour: grey, white. A row of snow roofed brown and grey buildings go from the lower left to the right side two thirds up in a crescent line and diminishing in size. Along the lower edge at the left are bare branches, at center is a small building, at right is the corner of a snowy roof. At th right side is the edge of a lake, a dock with a boat tied up on either side. There are two buildings near the dock and to ? here and thre in front of the buildings. In the upper third is the vague outline of trees. Snow falls in big flakes all over the picture.
- Subject
- architecture, urban
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.05
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.04
- Description
- General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner ar…
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- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 91.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner are three rocks.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Purchased from Dorothy H. Wardle, Sidney, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- RuC.02.04
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.130
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.130
- Description
- Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.
1 image
- Title
- Lake McArthur and Mount Biddle
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 10.75 x 8.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, purple, green, cream. The bottom edge is blue water. Brown and green shore gives way to snow patch which is partly shadowed. In the upper half is purple mountain rock face. Sky in the upper right corner is cloudless.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.130
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Goat Mountain, Spray Valley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.131
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.131
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, grey. At the lower left corner is a purple rock slope with three short trees on it. Behind on either side are green shores sloping down to a snowy river which goes from the lower right corner to the center. In the upper third in the distance are blue mountains three peaks and b…
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- Title
- Goat Mountain, Spray Valley
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 27.7 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, grey. At the lower left corner is a purple rock slope with three short trees on it. Behind on either side are green shores sloping down to a snowy river which goes from the lower right corner to the center. In the upper third in the distance are blue mountains three peaks and blue sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.131
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.132
- Description
- Colour: purple, turquoise, yellow. At the lower edge is a dark turquoise lake. The far shore goes from purple to green trees to grey to purple to yellow to brown mountain.
1 image
- Title
- Lake O'Hara
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 27.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: purple, turquoise, yellow. At the lower edge is a dark turquoise lake. The far shore goes from purple to green trees to grey to purple to yellow to brown mountain.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Lake O'Hara
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.132
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Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.133
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.133
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower…
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- Title
- Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 11 x 9 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower half. Grey sky with hints of purple mountains fill the top.
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret White, Kamloops, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.133
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.134
- Description
- Colour: blue, orange, green grey, brown. The main image is the roof and upper story of a Japanese building. At the right side, green foliage peeks around the edge of the building. Blue sky fills the upper edge and the upper right corner.
1 image
- Title
- Nikko, Japan
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 11 x 9 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, orange, green grey, brown. The main image is the roof and upper story of a Japanese building. At the right side, green foliage peeks around the edge of the building. Blue sky fills the upper edge and the upper right corner.
- Subject
- architecture
- religious
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.134
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.135
- Description
- Colour: blue, white, orange brown. This is a street scene with buildings on either side. White laundry is strung between and orange signs hang out with East-Asian characters on them. There's a blue sign on the left building. There are people in the lower area. A man in a hat with a blue bundle is i…
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- Title
- Shanghai
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 11 x 9 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, white, orange brown. This is a street scene with buildings on either side. White laundry is strung between and orange signs hang out with East-Asian characters on them. There's a blue sign on the left building. There are people in the lower area. A man in a hat with a blue bundle is in the lower right corner.
- Subject
- architecture
- urban
- figure
- group
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.135
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Pacific Sunset
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.136
- Description
- Golour: grey, yellow, peach, blue. The lower edge is dark blue water. The rest is grey sky with two light blue green clouds and streaks of yellow and peach sunlight coming down to the water.
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- Title
- Pacific Sunset
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 11 x 9 cm
- Description
- Golour: grey, yellow, peach, blue. The lower edge is dark blue water. The rest is grey sky with two light blue green clouds and streaks of yellow and peach sunlight coming down to the water.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.136
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- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.137
- Description
- Colour: blue, pink, yellow. Central image is a boat with its sail up. The head and shoulders of three figures can be seen in the boat. On the horizon to the right side is another boat. Distant mauve mountains can be seen behind and soft white blue sky above.
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- Title
- Chinese Junk
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 11 x 9 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, pink, yellow. Central image is a boat with its sail up. The head and shoulders of three figures can be seen in the boat. On the horizon to the right side is another boat. Distant mauve mountains can be seen behind and soft white blue sky above.
- Subject
- seascape
- transportation
- mountains
- figures
- group
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.137
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